tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36132856187707742312018-03-05T08:38:53.753-08:00Sue MoulesSue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-73607969603468416272015-02-16T11:49:00.001-08:002015-02-16T11:49:51.421-08:00Writers' HolidayWeekend<br />No cooking or washing up.Bliss! <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HfyWFWO64Z4/VOJJWbqKsbI/AAAAAAAAAPY/9Lnhiz9Er6w/s1600/Fishguard%2BFeb%2B2015%2B051.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HfyWFWO64Z4/VOJJWbqKsbI/AAAAAAAAAPY/9Lnhiz9Er6w/s1600/Fishguard%2BFeb%2B2015%2B051.JPG" height="150" width="200" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qOvOj5YVRg0/VOJJLjj4uPI/AAAAAAAAAPI/e99cYLGCOX0/s1600/Fishguard%2BFeb%2B2015%2B025.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qOvOj5YVRg0/VOJJLjj4uPI/AAAAAAAAAPI/e99cYLGCOX0/s1600/Fishguard%2BFeb%2B2015%2B025.JPG" height="200" width="150" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B5cF2UA117c/VOJJTAtK_fI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/U9Pn7i4bs1Y/s1600/Fishguard%2BFeb%2B2015%2B028.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B5cF2UA117c/VOJJTAtK_fI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/U9Pn7i4bs1Y/s1600/Fishguard%2BFeb%2B2015%2B028.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></div>Two days of writing,reading talking,walking and workshops,and wonderful weather.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-25862278097543182882015-01-05T11:36:00.002-08:002015-01-05T11:36:25.709-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cHrvG05RIbc/VKrlyNCTvTI/AAAAAAAAAOE/xkQ1vXLGk2U/s1600/December%2B2014%2B014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cHrvG05RIbc/VKrlyNCTvTI/AAAAAAAAAOE/xkQ1vXLGk2U/s1600/December%2B2014%2B014.JPG" height="320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><h2><b>New Year</b></h2><br />A new year is like an empty sheet of paper.It waits for inspiration. Most people try to start the year with resolutions.<br />Some people succeed, but I usually don't.<br /><br />The sun over the sea on a morning walk, but those walks have already disappeared, and we are only five days into a new year!<br /><br />So, I shall make affirmations instead:to increase the readers of my blog, to do more readings from The Moth Box (Parthian) and The Wish Dog (Honno).<br /><br />To learn to see the world from the perspective of a bird,like the fabulous heron I saw on a frosty January morning.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eF85cu5QPWM/VKrnZJyi_rI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/8xF_XfhU4js/s1600/December%2B2014%2B394.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eF85cu5QPWM/VKrnZJyi_rI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/8xF_XfhU4js/s1600/December%2B2014%2B394.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></div>Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-38756674008548099252014-11-14T03:39:00.006-08:002014-11-14T03:39:50.751-08:00RE-BRANDING<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you can see my blog has had a make-over!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It now looks very exciting now and is ready for me to update with my news. My re-brand was done by Cara Bendon Brand Consultancy <b>www.carabendon.com.</b>a</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nd I'm delighted with the result</span>Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-23726603207843038082014-11-14T03:27:00.003-08:002014-11-14T03:27:46.736-08:00The Wish Dog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UEqPy26MKRg/VGXmQTFx7mI/AAAAAAAAANA/c4kCq8WvbsA/s1600/HONNO%2BWISH%2BDOG%2BLAUNCH%2BNOV%2B2014%2B002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UEqPy26MKRg/VGXmQTFx7mI/AAAAAAAAANA/c4kCq8WvbsA/s1600/HONNO%2BWISH%2BDOG%2BLAUNCH%2BNOV%2B2014%2B002.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VTeMlnsk4Z4/VGXmU_r4BKI/AAAAAAAAANQ/TrDpo61ZBvQ/s1600/HONNO%2BWISH%2BDOG%2BLAUNCH%2BNOV%2B2014%2B011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VTeMlnsk4Z4/VGXmU_r4BKI/AAAAAAAAANQ/TrDpo61ZBvQ/s1600/HONNO%2BWISH%2BDOG%2BLAUNCH%2BNOV%2B2014%2B011.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h09jgRI55k8/VGXmQx49xsI/AAAAAAAAANE/rPIzmmni_uU/s1600/HONNO%2BWISH%2BDOG%2BLAUNCH%2BNOV%2B2014%2B001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h09jgRI55k8/VGXmQx49xsI/AAAAAAAAANE/rPIzmmni_uU/s1600/HONNO%2BWISH%2BDOG%2BLAUNCH%2BNOV%2B2014%2B001.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a><br /><br />Last week I was involved with a book launch for The Wish Dog ,a book of ghost stories recently published by Honno,in which I have a story . I also read from The Moth Box.<br /><br /><br />Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-63700907706580578392014-07-04T10:21:00.002-07:002014-11-12T10:31:20.271-08:00Dylan 100<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The Dylan exhibition at the NLW is interesting, but so many recordings going at once means nothing is heard! (In the PeterBlake/Dylan in Cardiff they had headphones). Also, the poetry pub seems to demean the quality of literature, but I suppose it's a fun way to hear poetry, that is if you can hear it over the other recordings.<br /><br />Getting there is difficult as there are about 6 sets of traffic lights on the Aberystwyth road-cars go through at 6 at a time, and there are long , long tailbacks. Still the roses outside are wonderful, and you can see the notebooks (on loan from University of Buffalo). Why didn't a Welsh University buy his notebooks when he was an aspiring poet and struggling financially? It seems we still only honour dead poets who can't defend the legacy we give them.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gd_MEDsvdFM/VGOnZiOWPEI/AAAAAAAAAMo/FVRdxE6D-Hk/s1600/Dylan%2BThomas%2Bexhibition-NLW-July%2B2014%2B003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="105" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gd_MEDsvdFM/VGOnZiOWPEI/AAAAAAAAAMo/FVRdxE6D-Hk/s320/Dylan%2BThomas%2Bexhibition-NLW-July%2B2014%2B003.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mZTxYX6cT5U/VGOnZacvcUI/AAAAAAAAAMk/DkNigDlZut8/s1600/Dylan%2BThomas%2Bexhibition-NLW-July%2B2014%2B015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mZTxYX6cT5U/VGOnZacvcUI/AAAAAAAAAMk/DkNigDlZut8/s320/Dylan%2BThomas%2Bexhibition-NLW-July%2B2014%2B015.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pcQYjki8orw/U7biOULA-UI/AAAAAAAAAKw/Io9rLv_YHBs/s1600/Dylan+Thomas+exhibition-NLW-July+2014+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></div>Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-5156723112913263412014-06-20T10:57:00.000-07:002014-11-12T10:40:41.513-08:00MY FIRST WEEK AS A WRITER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JS5lUj1dsy8/U6RzvpY6OzI/AAAAAAAAAKU/YjeqbPaE-_A/s1600/BOOK+LAUNCH+OCT+2013+019+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JS5lUj1dsy8/U6RzvpY6OzI/AAAAAAAAAKU/YjeqbPaE-_A/s1600/BOOK+LAUNCH+OCT+2013+019+(2).jpg" height="320" width="240" /></a></div>Although my poetry book,&nbsp;<b>The Moth Box</b>&nbsp;(Parthian) was published in October I had little time to promote it fully. Since then it has been featured in Author's Notes in The Western Mail, and I've done a few readings and book signings.<br /><br />Now my day job has ended I have become a full time writer, and am busy promoting my book in bookshops with the offer of a reading or signing. I've contacted my publisher about an e-book, but they haven't made e-books of poetry -&nbsp;<b>yet</b>.<br /><br />My book is also available on Amazon. Please leave a review when you've read it.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moth-Box-Sue-Moules/dp/1909844071/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1415817187&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=THE+MOTH+BOX" target="_blank">BUY THE MOTH BOX HERE</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div>Of course, I always carry it with me so stop me and buy one.</div>Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-68012050216059477062014-04-25T23:31:00.001-07:002014-04-25T23:37:38.782-07:00A Busy Week<br /><br />It has been a busy week : a Red Heron meeting to plan our Summer tour of events.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">Red Heron,</span>&nbsp;<cite class="_nd" style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>redheron</b>lampeter.<b>weebly.com</b>/</cite><span style="white-space: nowrap;">‎ is a poetry performance group I'm part of,</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">which was founded&nbsp;</span><span style="white-space: nowrap;">&nbsp;two years' ago to promote our poetry. We have read at&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">The Carmarthen Old Town Festival,The Kings Fest,</span><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Strata Florida and the Lampeter</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Food Festival,&nbsp;</span><span style="white-space: nowrap;">and are available for bookings.</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">See our website for details:&nbsp;</span><cite class="_nd" style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>redheron</b>lampeter.<b>weebly.com</b>/</cite><span style="white-space: nowrap;">‎.</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><br /></span><span style="white-space: nowrap;">A friend's book launch in Cardigan,and a chance to see the new Parthian Books catalogue,</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">where&nbsp;</span><span style="white-space: nowrap;">The Moth Box has its own publicity page .</span><br /><ol eid="h1BbU87tI8GAPcH8gKgG" id="rso"><div class="srg"><br /><br /></div></ol>Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-35121723526693636512014-04-15T05:26:00.000-07:002014-04-15T05:26:08.844-07:00Author's NotesThe Moth Box started as two collections. One was a series of poems about having lived in Wales all my adult life .The other was a collection of nature poems inspired by a course where I first encountered a moth box.<br />A moth box is a light box to attract moths, so that the species can be counted and identified .<br />It is filled with torn up egg boxes and twigs so the moths settle and sleep when the light is turned off .<br />In the morning the box is opened and the insects can be examined under a hand lens , identified, and then released by putting onto branches where they blend into the trees. It was exciting. I had never held a moth on my hand before.I could see the scales of pattern on its wings.<br />I grow Evening Primrose as it attracts insects, but the moths had just been shapes attracted to the scent of the flowers.Now, I discovered the wonderful names of moths: Scorched Wing, Tussock, White Ermine, Marbled Coronet, Phoenix. It was poetry.Both moths and butterflies belong to the insect species Lepidoptera.There are more moths than butterflies, yet we are more aware of the latter.<br />There are at least 160,000 species of moth.Being night time creatures they are more elusive and drab.<br />I tend to think of poets as the moths of the literary scene.<br />People can usually name a novelist, but have to struggle to think of a poem or a poet. I hope that will change this year with the celebration of the centenary of Dylan Thomas’ birth, Dylan100.<br />I have always written poetry.Maybe this is because poems are small on the page. However, my favourite poem as a child was the long poem Hiawatha .I didn’t encounter précis, the art of reducing a long piece of writing to a concise distillation of meaning, until I was 13.At first I preferred comprehension, but then developed a love of précis, taking words out of a piece to make it more succinct.This is a skill a poet needs, and working with an editor helps this process to take the poems from the rough diamond to the polished gem.<br />I was fortunate to have the poet Alan Kellermann as my editor; he shuffled the two small collections together.He also sourced the amazing cover photo of a Polyphemus moth.<br />The collection I sent to him had a different title. I had once called one of the collections The Moth Box and other poems . Seredipidity. I didn’t know then that mine was the first book he’d edited, and he says that makes it special.For me it’s special as it’s my first book with Parthian.<br /><br />Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-25925487884465789982014-03-20T07:36:00.001-07:002014-03-20T07:50:51.358-07:00THE BLOG TOUR<b>What am I am working on? </b><br />At the moment I’m working on promoting my book <b>The Moth Box </b>which was published last October. Although it is available from Amazon and from the Parthian website I’m trying to get it put in local bookshops and art galleries . I’m having some success and it was in the window at <b>Bookworm </b>and is stocked in the <b>Aberystwyth Arts Centre bookshop </b>and in <b>Leafed Through </b>in Cardigan. Poetry books don’t sell in large numbers and so I’m doing signings and readings to help promote it while waiting for my reviews, which again will bring attention to the book.<br /><b>How does my work differ from others in the genre?</b><br />Poetry is a vast genre . I write mainly in free verse. I do occasionally write in form: couplets, sonnets, villanelle and haiku are my favourite. I’ve written sestina and mirror poems too. I like to think my poetry has its own distinctive voice, but as long as I’ve achieved <em>the best words in the best order</em> I’m satisfied<br /><b>Why do I write?</b><br />I write because I’m obsessed with letters and words, and moving them about the page in order to say something original, or something I think is original. It is a need inside me to make patterns out of letters. <br /><b>How does my writing process work?</b><br />Sometimes it is inspiration or a visual image. This morning it was the magpies again . I look out on them from the office window. I store the image until I have time to note it down. Often my inspiration comes from the natural world: the turn of the seasons, the colour of the sky in the morning. sometimes these images go no further, but sometimes they lift off the ground like the magpies into a verse . <br /><br /> <next and="" be="" biggs="" blog="" check="" doing="" interesting="" jackie="" locock="" martin="" out="" the="" their="" tour.="" week="" will=""> <martin martinlocock.blogspot.com=""><jackie ackie-newsblogspot=""> Next week The Blog Tour takes us to poets&nbsp;Martin Locock-<strong>http://martinlocock.blogspot.com</strong>/ and</jackie></martin></next><br /><next and="" be="" biggs="" blog="" check="" doing="" interesting="" jackie="" locock="" martin="" out="" the="" their="" tour.="" week="" will=""><martin martinlocock.blogspot.com=""><jackie ackie-newsblogspot="">Jackie Biggs<strong>-http://jackie-news.blogspot</strong></jackie></martin></next>Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-90902837103148315402013-11-18T23:41:00.003-08:002013-11-18T23:41:55.164-08:00THE MOTH BOX<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Z-uFKbDqlw/UosVWjoMlVI/AAAAAAAAAHw/xfkroO1XUa0/s1600/booksigning+poster.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Z-uFKbDqlw/UosVWjoMlVI/AAAAAAAAAHw/xfkroO1XUa0/s320/booksigning+poster.png" /></a></div> After a long break from my blog,I'm back with my new collection of poetry <b>The Moth Box</b> which is available from bookshops and from Amazon. I am giving readings and book signings to promote it.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-10584138996426526572012-07-04T11:33:00.002-07:002012-07-04T11:33:43.800-07:00Honno's Poem of the MonthDelighted to have Honno's first poem in their new Poem of the Month slot in this their celebratory 25th anniversary year. http://www.honno.co.uk/potmjuly12.php Zig Zag For Mary MacGregor There are no stars tonight as we walk into the dark from the light of the bookshop talking about words and time. 'I love the Welsh word for time, amser' you say breaking it down into am and ser, translating it around stars. You talk about Dylan Thomas: 'And time has ticked a heaven round the stars' writing amser in the margin of his poem. You are a face at poetry readings, a lover of words, you tell me another favourite: igam-ogam, Welsh for zig-zag. Time parts us in the car park, you make for Rhayader, and I for Aberaeron, I take with me words like stars to light my zig-zag way. Sue Moules has had work in two Honno anthologies: • Exchanges, poems by women in Wales, edited by Jude Brigley (1990) • On My Life, edited by Leigh Verrill-Rhys (1989) She has been widely published in literary magazines including Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Planet, Ambit, The North, Orbis, Acumen and Roundyhouse. Her work has appeared in many anthologies including The Whispering Room (Kingfisher), Poetry Wales 25 years (Seren), The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Cinnamon), The Voice of Women in Wales(Wales Women's Coalition), Of Cake and Words (Cledlyn), A Star Fell From Orion (Peter, Bridge and Stephen).Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-11778536853149983582012-06-12T04:44:00.000-07:002012-06-12T04:44:50.951-07:00Hay FestivalWell, I'm back on the blog,after a 9 month break. A wet and stormy Hay celebrating its 25th birthday. Honno,the Welsh Women's Press, were also celebrating 25 years,and I am a proud owner of one of the original shares.<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-553yHXYVen0/T9crmLoP-0I/AAAAAAAAAGE/8T6ciZSZBUc/s1600/Hay%2B2012%2B038.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="150" width="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-553yHXYVen0/T9crmLoP-0I/AAAAAAAAAGE/8T6ciZSZBUc/s200/Hay%2B2012%2B038.JPG" /></a> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QBOkfwL2K5g/T9crlDIuzHI/AAAAAAAAAFs/2PrirJmMWMM/s1600/Hay%2B2012%2B093.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="150" width="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QBOkfwL2K5g/T9crlDIuzHI/AAAAAAAAAFs/2PrirJmMWMM/s200/Hay%2B2012%2B093.JPG" /></a> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bisEhmH76Mc/T9crlqcNvWI/AAAAAAAAAF4/iKAu5mug7Q4/s1600/Hay%2B2012%2B057.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="200" width="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bisEhmH76Mc/T9crlqcNvWI/AAAAAAAAAF4/iKAu5mug7Q4/s200/Hay%2B2012%2B057.JPG" /></a>Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-54701630434703923262011-10-16T05:32:00.000-07:002011-10-16T05:38:28.542-07:00October<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6Q1juMGT0x0/TprPgabmX7I/AAAAAAAAAEw/3noZVz4S5So/s1600/oct%2B2011%2B025.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6Q1juMGT0x0/TprPgabmX7I/AAAAAAAAAEw/3noZVz4S5So/s200/oct%2B2011%2B025.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664067637129666482" /></a><br /><br />October - a long time since my last blog, but nothing writerly has happened. When I don't commit to writing then I drift. Anyway, a photo of the fantastic Virginia Creeper in the garden which is lifting my spirits at the moment, as I think about an elegy I want to write for a friend.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-57395824583403676272011-09-09T11:54:00.000-07:002011-09-09T12:09:59.096-07:00YOU WRITE LIKESo I think I'll give it a go and type in a piece of fiction.It's analysed as like James Joyce. Wow,I admire Joyce, although I still have't finished Ulysees,and have no intention of reading Finnegan's Wake,but I love Portrait of the Artist and Dubliners.<br /><br /> Then I type in a poem, and again it's analsed as James Joyce style. I'm feeling really smug.Then I think perhaps it's fixed so I type in my shopping list and that is not in James Joyce style! This has me thinking about my voice and my style-the aim of every writer is to have their own style, their own voice, so I need to keep writing until I've found it.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-8005026497771697752011-09-05T09:10:00.000-07:002011-09-05T09:24:56.166-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kYcm4uH60gk/TmT1QdyMo4I/AAAAAAAAAEc/H0KWtjlyKoE/s1600/Ty%2BNewydd-Aug-Sept%2B2011%2B290.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kYcm4uH60gk/TmT1QdyMo4I/AAAAAAAAAEc/H0KWtjlyKoE/s200/Ty%2BNewydd-Aug-Sept%2B2011%2B290.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648909495851328386" /></a>
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<br />After 3 months not blogging I'm back-thank you Rachel America for telling me you'd read my blog. I thought only two of my friends read this! I wish more people would follow me if they read it, as it seemed crazy writing it for two friends I see weekly and talk about the events I blog about.
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<br />A writing course in North Wales and I'm inspired again! But back to the kick and hurt of reality,and a car that worked well last week tells me with its computer tickertape that it has "engine failure" and a red light comes on.Back to the garage again.
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<br />Still last week was brilliant. Time to relax and write,talk poetry,read poetry,swim in the sea and eat fantastic flavoured ice cream.
<br />Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-21253255339438013682011-06-05T09:53:00.001-07:002011-06-05T09:57:55.539-07:00Hay Festival<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7lAym4cIuZ0/Teu1IScJobI/AAAAAAAAAEM/b2zgrEdzqnQ/s1600/P1090546.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7lAym4cIuZ0/Teu1IScJobI/AAAAAAAAAEM/b2zgrEdzqnQ/s200/P1090546.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614780514440946098" /></a><br />Been to the Hay Festival.Had a great time.The atmosphere is wonderful even though the place is frentic with people, talk, ideas, coffee, cake, wild flowers.I love the festival, and love being in Hay.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-73898042349775046652011-05-16T00:52:00.000-07:002011-05-16T00:57:32.893-07:00ENTRIESThe first entries for the Cwrtnewydd Scribblers short story competition have arrived,which is exciting. There are still six weeks to go before the closing date of 30th of June,still plenty of time to write your summer themed story. Cash prizes and publication-all very tempting-so download your entry form and get writing.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-278686028832939182011-03-28T03:16:00.000-07:002011-03-28T03:24:33.052-07:00GRACE IN LITERATUREOn Saturday I attended the lecture given by the Rowan Williams,Archbishop of Canterbury, on Grace in Literature. I knew Rowan Williams was a poet and a theologian, but he is also an academic and a fine lecturer and linguist, reading Welsh cynhanedd and Italian from Dante. <br /><br />Rowan Williams is an unassuming and erudite man. A gracious man.He wore a suit and dog collar with a wooden cross around his neck, while the college officials dressed in academic regalia. Afterwards he turned up at the drinks reception to talk to people, and he had to be called in for the official dinner.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-57946224537258484502011-03-04T23:58:00.000-08:002011-03-05T00:06:13.080-08:00World Book Night<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Avvak3o03Zg/TXHtqvI2fII/AAAAAAAAAEA/i9Ebk37Hl70/s1600/world%2Bbook%2Bnight%252CMarch%2B2011%2B013.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Avvak3o03Zg/TXHtqvI2fII/AAAAAAAAAEA/i9Ebk37Hl70/s200/world%2Bbook%2Bnight%252CMarch%2B2011%2B013.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580502731752635522" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xojKNanHkhA/TXHtqRfsK7I/AAAAAAAAAD4/tKDT62ijsEw/s1600/world%2Bbook%2Bnight%252CMarch%2B2011%2B012.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xojKNanHkhA/TXHtqRfsK7I/AAAAAAAAAD4/tKDT62ijsEw/s200/world%2Bbook%2Bnight%252CMarch%2B2011%2B012.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580502723795364786" /></a><br />Today I am giving away copies of Seamus Heaney's New Selected Poems.I have 48 copies to set free.Each one has a number.If you receive a World Book Day book register this number with the World Book Night website.They can then monitor the book's journey-for these books are to read and share. Last year people were asked to apply to be book givers;to choose from the list a book they felt passionately about and to give it to others. Today my box of books are being liberated-sending poetry out to a wider readership.Read and pass the book on.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-51985103380608577892011-02-28T12:34:00.000-08:002011-02-28T12:41:37.967-08:00Short Story CompetitionToday the Cwrtnewydd Scribblers have launched their first short story competition-Summer Sun, Summer Fun - for stories up to 1,500 words. <br />Entry is £5 for the first story,and £3 for subsequent entries. <br />Prizes are £40,£20,£10 and publication in our anthology. <br />For more details check out the Cwrtnewydd Scriblers' website.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-61113759516945879342011-02-06T01:43:00.001-08:002011-02-11T13:05:18.821-08:00Snowdrops<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZwQFXRCk2s/TU5thfV-CCI/AAAAAAAAADw/4gcGfIlreS4/s1600/Jan%2B%2526%2BFeb%2B2011%2B122.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZwQFXRCk2s/TU5thfV-CCI/AAAAAAAAADw/4gcGfIlreS4/s200/Jan%2B%2526%2BFeb%2B2011%2B122.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570510211220637730" /></a><br /><br />At last Spring is on the way.Yesterday I saw snowdops and catkins.I thought snowdrops were called Liliwen bach in Welsh, but that's not given in my dictionary. Yesterday was the Chinese new year ,and now we are in the year of the rabbit.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-59717133883801125612011-01-21T01:07:00.000-08:002011-01-21T01:21:35.156-08:00The Poetry LaureatesWith the recent appointment of Liz Lochhead as the National Poet of Scotland, Makar, we have three female Lauureates- Gillian Clarke is National Poet of Wales, and Carol Ann Duffy the Poet Laureate. Gillian Clarke has also been awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry.<br /><br />It is wonderful to see women in the top literary positions, as women write more poetry than men. Most creative writing classes have more women than men in them,and yet more men get published.<br /><br />Now we have a triumvirate of women. Let's hope it inspires us all to write and publish poetry.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-67263047898820447522011-01-15T02:10:00.000-08:002011-01-17T07:00:20.685-08:00JanuaryAlready half way through the month and I have a new car. It's great not to have to walk everywhere,but this car ,although 10 years old,and a little too big for me ,is full of electrical gismos. Yesterday,I left the lights on and flattened the battery. Got it sorted,but now it tells me that it's Saturday 1st January.<br /><br /> I don't mind beginning the month again, perhaps I'll get down to some writing. It's always hard to get back into routine, and each day I postpone doing things makes it even harder to start.So I need to buy a new notebook. I had a new expensive sketch book I was saving.My daughter found it and has used it for her exam revision. So to the pound shop for something cheap that I won't mind spoiling.The hardest part of writing is the starting.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-62384827772429314402011-01-01T04:19:00.000-08:002011-01-01T04:34:21.649-08:00NEW YEARSo the new year is here-Blwyddyn newydd dda or perhaps Blwyddyn newydd austere. Over the past years I have tighted my belt,but now the papers are saying it will cost £160 just to cover petrol increases, VAT increases,and higher food prices. <br /><br />I have spent the morning cleaning out my car,which having failed its MOT is off to the scrap yard. It is eleven years old,but it needs a lot of little things doing to it, and all those little things add up to a lot of money. I paid it last year,but not again. So the option is to go without a car. I don't need one;it is an expensive luxury .<br /><br />I wonder how long I can manage carrying my shopping home, catching the bus,and giving up things not on a bus route. I didn't have a car until I was in my early thirties, but it is lovely to have mobility.Still the way petrol is going up it isn't the time to think about another car,and I can't drive for another week anyway because of my carpal tunnel operation.<br /><br />On a brighter note the date 1.1.11 looks like binary code,stark tall winter trees standing to attention.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613285618770774231.post-55929160333412804972010-12-24T11:59:00.000-08:002010-12-24T12:09:29.464-08:00ICICLES<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KZwQFXRCk2s/TRT9TMkio1I/AAAAAAAAADg/m8_C5zaW6-U/s1600/snow%2B025.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KZwQFXRCk2s/TRT9TMkio1I/AAAAAAAAADg/m8_C5zaW6-U/s200/snow%2B025.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554342746688496466" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZwQFXRCk2s/TRT7-Y5At6I/AAAAAAAAADY/igZtV5QUh5w/s1600/snow%2B076.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZwQFXRCk2s/TRT7-Y5At6I/AAAAAAAAADY/igZtV5QUh5w/s200/snow%2B076.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554341289706698658" /></a><br /><br />Nearly Christmas and we are still caught up in a frozen landscape. It is the coldest December since 1894,and those Victorian Winter Wonderland of frozen rivers and lakes.<br />If only the roads and pavements were salted it wouldn't be so bad,but the sparkle of diamonds in the snow has worn off. The icicles are amazing hanging from the guttering like sculpture,as long as they don't bring down the guttering when they fall.Sue Mouleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117499736222215243noreply@blogger.com0